Posted on 03/28/2014 5:17:22 AM PDT by C19fan
An awful 146-word term paper littered with grammatical errors that is barely even readable has become a potent visual symbol of the University of North Carolina's fake classes scandal. The one-paragraph essay on civil rights icon Rosa Parks earned an A- and was exposed by former UNC professor Mary Willingham, who spent 10 years teaching UNC's athletes before she turned whistleblower on alleged classroom corruption. The shocking essay came to light during an ESPN documentary timed to coincide with the March Madness basketball competition. It contains allegations that UNC athletes in danger of failing were encouraged to sign up for fake tutor groups designed to let students pass.
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They transfer to Ole Miss, they can get into the Honors College.
Ain't just football, either.
I dated a girl in college who TA'd Math 099 (remedial math for jocks). She used to get multiple choice tests back with all of the answers shifted off by one ... where they'd memorized the test incorrectly.
She said that grading by the prof had "C" standing for "Close Enough".
Clearly the instructor is brilliant.
College football is fun to watch, in person or on TV - and yet we all know there are corruptions inherent in the system. I was intrigued by your emphasis on “exploitative” - where you headed with that?
If anyone has missed how corrupt college athletics is.......
Penn State. Three years ago. Jerry Sandusky. Child rape for decades. No one said a thing until it became beyond excusing anymore.
That’s how corrupt college athletics is. A crappy essay is nothing.
I’m sure that him not identifying Parks as the first to be arrested in a civil rights bus protest was not an oversight; /sarcasm
http://www.cracked.com/article_19076_5-important-people-who-were-screwed-out-history-books.html
What is it with these sports scholarships anyway? Surely college scholarships should be granted on the basis of academic merit, not the ability to kick a ball about on a field.
And the vast majority are, some go to sports, some of those make money and interest alumni with money to donate to the school.
Being articulate is not a requirement to be a gladiator. :)
Funny story: I have a friend who played for Penn State's 1986 football team. At the time, Joe Paterno was known for at least trying to get the athletes to study and get decent grades. Paterno made a big speech at one early practice that if anyone needed time off from practice to study, he would give it to them. My friend, who was smart, came to Paterno one day and said he was struggling with accounting and needed to take off a practice to study for it. Paterno, who knew my friend was smart, looked at him and said,”When I said that, I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to the dummies who are getting Ds and Fs.”
Bear in mind that we elect politicians, not on the basis of academic merit, but their ability to kick the can down the road...
“I bet this happens at most major programs.”
The “major programs” have no monopoly on this and it starts right back in high school sports. If a player has ANY potential, they are giving “opportunities” that the not so talented kids are. (I too played in highs school sports).
If EVERY player in professional sports were given an exam to determine their eligibility to read or write (even at a high school level), there would be a whole lot fewer players on the field.
"Mutha F-ing 'A' "
"Mutha F-ing 'B' "
"Mutha F-ing 'C' ".....
The reason is obvious. It’s the content that matters. If the paper parrots the Politically Correct views, it gets a high mark.
Whoops! I did not know that this version of the cluip had someone edited in at the end who cusses. My apologies.
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